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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1970
Page
8
A column titled World at Our Feet offers a brief rhyme with reason about growth and transformation. The writer links observing a butterfly’s emergence to reflections on boys and progress, delivering a compact, period-voiced musing.
A fragmentary verse reminiscence recalls three boys and a flock of farm animals amid wild stunts. Rockets, turtle races, frogmen in a tank, and a taunting nod to Darwin and Newton raise questions about progress and nature.
A fragmentary verse scene asks where hunter boys went as three sturdy men emerge from small shoes. They roam the world, trading comics for late news while beasts stay wary of decoys.
James P. Rooney, 21, son of Mr and Mrs Willian V Rooney of Graettinger, promoted to Army specialist four in Vietnam while serving with the 1st Infantry Division. He entered service in February 1969, was at Fort Ord California, arrived in Vietnam in June, and holds the Combat Infantryman Badge.
The PACARC will hold its February meeting Monday February 2 at 8 p.m. in the Little Theatre of Ruthven school. All county residents are urged to attend as progress of programs for the retarded will be discussed. Changes may have taken place and plans for Career Motivation Day and the membership drive will be made.
Bob Breffle admissions counselor for Westmar College will visit Graettinger High School in Graettinger Iowa on Thursday February 5 to discuss the four year coeducational private liberal arts program and Westmars relationship with the United Methodist Church.
In Palo Alto County Iowa the probate of John E Platter deceased has admitted the Last Will dated March 31 1955 and named executors John L Platter and Lowell E Platter. Creditors must file claims with the court within six months from the second publication. actions to contest must be brought within one year. Executors located in Estherville and Graettinger with attorney G L Carmichael of Emmetsburg. Date of second publication February 3 1970.
The Camp family faced a sex linked immunodeficiency diagnosis for their son David, but a breakthrough at the University of Minnesota led by Dr. Robert Good with marrow from his cousin Doreen. The August 1968 transplant and a November second transplant saved David, who returned home healthy by Christmas 1969.
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